u/AdditionalAd7018

Due to family circumstances and COL my partner and I are moving out of state in a few months. I was thinking I could go remote as it really isn’t a manual job and I work hybrid already, but my boss said that they couldn’t approve a remote position in another state. I knew this was a risk but it still sucks.

They are keeping me on for the next few months until I move and while I train my replacement (I am hesitantly optimistic as they have never lied to me in the past but I know not to take it at face value). I’m a scared though as I don’t have any other prospects in my new location. My partner makes enough to support us based on the new COL standards, but our financials will be rather tight.

I can’t really start applying to jobs now as I can’t interview in person without getting on a plane and taking a day off work and I don’t have many days off.

Is there any advice on what to do? I currently make $50k and my background is IT support and education. I’m just so scared from all the posts I am seeing about the job market and it took me 6 months to find this job so I don’t want to under prepare but I also don’t want to go too aggressively and then not be able to attend an interview if they require it to be in person.

I can move up early as I have family where we are going, but would not being there right now be a big deterrent?

Summary of questions:

1. Any advice on applying to a job out of state?

2. When should I really start applying? - I have somewhere to live before we move if I get the job, but in person interviews are limited.

3. Am I making a huge mistake with no job lined up? I’m willing to work hourly if needed as I am 23 and still on my parent’s health insurance.

I work for a high value service brand where our typical conversion can take anywhere from 3-6 months based on approvals and client follow through. We are a high cost relatively high commitment program and have a high budget spend.

I was recommended by our Google ads specialist to use value based bidding and assigning an arbitrary number to the offline conversion cycles. We currently are using TCpA bidding with max conversions.

Since our sales life cycle is so long and our packages vary in pricing (a lot of clients upgrade packages as they continue through the program) I am hesitant to set an arbitrary number to our sale stages. We have the budget to gather the data and find out quickly if it is working or not, but even with the data we won’t have accurate details about a true sales lifecycle until at least three months later which is a big risk for a test.

Are there any pros to setting it up that I am missing? What we’re doing now works and I fear setting this all up may not have any value impact or slow our lead flow.